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March 30, 2006

Gmail Logo Replaced By Image Of Woman?

This can be completely false and made up but I thought it was weird enough to report here. A DigitalPoint Forum thread named Mysterious GMail Image - Girl Sticking Out Tongue! shows a link to a comment at a particular blog, where a gmail user says his gmail logo was replaced by a picture of a woman. He posted a screen shot here of the gmail screen, with the woman replacing the logo.

This site also notes the image, saying;

Have You Seen This Person?

Many Gmail users have seen this image when checking their mail tonite. This journalist figures it must have been an inside job because Google has a whole team of security experts. The question is then, when will we know for sure?

I am not sure what exactly is up here, it can most likely be a hoax. Or perhaps Google getting ready for April Fools Day.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.



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posted rustybrick in Other Google Topics at March 30, 2006 7:28 AM Comments (5)

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This is probably a screenshot from the Beta for the Gmail Domains service, where you can put any logo you want in that spot.

 

Posted by Chris at March 30, 2006 08:24

Well, my girlfriends sister has a xanga and there is some spam thing on there (of course) and that image comes up and says something like "come see my cam" ...whatever.

It could very well be a cache problem if some of you have visited any part of the xanga website.

 

Posted by Drew at March 30, 2006 11:07

I was the person that actually discovered this error and reported it late last night. I had made a post in google groups and it looks like the gmail team took care of it. I still would like to know the story behind the image, if google's security is really up to par, especially with emails from millions of users.

 

Posted by troy at March 30, 2006 16:15

Most definately not a cache problem, I dumped my cache in firefox, and viewed in IE, restarted the machine, the whole bit. I even viewed the image and saved it to my server, the quality is low. Just click my name on this comment to bring you to the URI

 

Posted by troy at March 30, 2006 16:35

Well, it might be another great works of Adobe or April Fool, Maybe.

 

Posted by Melinda Chiu at March 31, 2006 14:47

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